It’s one thing to believe in Jesus and hold to the hope of going to heaven after you die many years from now
It’s entirely another thing to make him Lord of the here and the now, down here on earth. Most of us don’t really know what that even means. We are so accustomed to living on auto pilot. Without wanting or needing to respond to our Lord, the extent of our spiritual life is going to church and praying for good things to happen.
But really making him Lord, doing what we know he wants against tradition. That will quickly get us into trouble. Challenge Satan and his rule on earth in the systems of govt or money or religion and you’ll quickly become an outcast, an irritation, a person to isolate and push away from. So deep is the root of Satan it grows by tradition from one generation to the next.
It’s quite upsetting to see how long and deep go the roots of Satan, even deep into what and who you always thought were godly.
Jesus railed against this evil tradition which nullified even the words of God. Religious tradition is quite possibly the worst thing to ever penetrate Gods earth. It is Satan’s primary mechanism of deception.
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